Media, music & gameswww.ign.com
IGN — website check
American video game and entertainment media website, founded 1996, based in San Francisco. IGN’s website (www.ign.com) runs on WordPress. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.
70
Brand Web Indexout of 100
Share of 26 technical checks the site passes: security, speed, email and SEO. A measurement of the website — not a popularity ranking.
67
Security
40
Speed & delivery
63
Email & domain
91
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026
About the brand
Founded1996
CountryUnited States
HeadquartersSan Francisco
IndustryMass media
Official websitewww.ign.com
Facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Built with
CMSWordPress
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
Advertising & pixelsGoogle Marketing Platform (DV360/CM360)Google Publisher Tag (Ad Manager)Prebid.js
ReviewsJudge.me
Hosting & delivery
Network (AS)Fastly
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateGlobalSign nv-sa · valid until 2027-05-02
First response6,680 ms
Homepage weight376 KB
IPv6no
Email & domain
Mail providerGoogle Workspace
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=quarantine
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesAdobe (Admin Console), Anthropic, Apple (domain verification), Atlassian Cloud, Brave Creators, DocuSign, GlobalSign, Google Search Console
SEO & social
Title48 characters
Meta description85 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataNewsMediaOrganization, PostalAddress
Language versions33
Open Graphyes
Social profiles linkedTiktok, X, Youtube
AI crawlers & robots
AI crawlers blockedGPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web
llms.txtno
ads.txtyes
security.txtno
Checklist
Security
- HTTPS by default
- HSTS header
- TLS 1.3
- Content-Security-Policy
- X-Content-Type-Options
- Referrer-Policy
Speed & delivery
- HTTP/3
- IPv6
- First response under 1.5 s
- Homepage under 1.5 MB
Email & domain
- SPF record
- DMARC record
- DMARC enforced (quarantine / reject)
- BIMI logo record
- DNSSEC
- CAA record
SEO & markup
- Title tag 10–70 characters
- Meta description
- Canonical link
- Exactly one H1
- Structured data (JSON-LD)
- Open Graph title and image
- All images have alt text
- XML sitemap
- robots.txt
- security.txt
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